(1) A decree appointing some fifty odd officers to the Metropolitan and Provincial administrations, (2) Li Hung-chang has asked us to allow that the fees and rentals of lands belonging to the various Princes and Nobles of Manchu and Banner descent in the province of Chibli, should be reduced this year and until further notice in consideration of the floods that have obstructed agriculture during the past season, As this is in the interest. of the poor cultivators of the soil who till the hereditary appanages of the Princes and Nobility, we command that
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